Case Study - Automotive Ancillary Services (P) Ltd.

The Client

Automotive Ancillary Services (P) Ltd. is a leading OEM supplier, providing pressed components for automotive OEM Majors serving Export and Domestic customers via its 4 Units spread all over India for the last 40 years.

Business Need

  • The client's business goal was to have an understanding of its own capacity constraints and therefore better production planning and control.
  • Increased market demand and BER regulation required that the product be able to integrate with new OEM systems and increase sales.
  • With several players in the market, the client wanted to become more competitive by handling a larger number of vehicle 'makes' and by providing an easy-to-use, new-technology product.
  • There was a need for faster release cycles and product stabilization to meet increased demand from clients.
  • To improve effective management of Planning releases and forecasts, it was important to introduce an Order Planning engine.
  • The client wished to improve product quality and reduce defects to cut costs both for itself and its clients.

Challenges

  • Increased demand and pressure from end customers had resulted in faster product rollout and stringent timelines.
  • There was insufficient production planning support.
  • Planning and Production floor targets frequently mismatched leading to frequent delivery performance issues, premium freight usage and Customer line stoppages.
  • Due to rapid growth, it was important to handle the rapid ramp-up in team size with knowledge of MS Dynamics NAV.

The Precision Techconet® Solution

The Precision Techconet® approach to addressing the business challenges included:

  • Configuring and implementing MS Dynamics NAV's order planning engine for better PPC that automated and streamlined the production process, and improved dispatch schedule adherence.
  • Developing a Product lifecycle management tool adhering to APQP and PPAP standards thereby reducing time for development man hours spent in repeat activity.
  • Designing and developing Maintenance & Quality control module to suit their business needs and which had reduced the manual documentation time and help them concentrate more on their operational activities.
  • Integrating the Worker Time management system with Precision Techconet® HRIS Software which ensured the management get exact timelines of production and helped them planning for new product releases.

Benefits

Within weeks of commencing the partnership, Precision Techconet® moved quickly from being a vendor to a strategic partner to Auto Ancillary services (P) Ltd., who provided improved value to its OEM clients.

The Precision Techconet® solution offered the following benefits:

  • The improved production scheduling meant a quicker turn-around time in production and dispatch. This is helping the client add new 'Parts', because of increased capacity in spite of the same infrastructure.
  • Significant savings through reduced operational cost and improved asset efficiency.
  • Better supplier delivery and quality performance monitoring with the Quality and Planning module.
  • Facilitated scalability and performance optimization on the product.
  • Freed up internal bandwidth within the client organization to help them focus on strategic issues.
  • Enabled cost reduction and reduced time-to-market by using the Global Delivery Model (GDM)